Data release for Geologic Map of the Leadville North 7.5' quadrangle, Eagle and Lake Counties, Colorado

The Leadville North 7.5' quadrangle lies at the northern end of the Upper Arkansas Valley, where the Continental Divide at Tennessee Pass creates a low drainage divide between the Colorado and Arkansas River watersheds. In the eastern half of the quadrangle, the Paleozoic sedimentary section dips generally 20–30 degrees east. At Tennessee Pass and Missouri Hill, the core of the Sawatch anticlinorium is mapped as displaying a tight hanging-wall syncline and foot-wall anticline within the basement-cored structure. High-angle, west-dipping, Neogene normal faults cut the eastern margin of the broad, Sawatch anticlinorium. Minor displacements along high-angle, east- and west-dipping Laramide reverse faults occurred in...

Tags: 10Be, 26Al, Belden Formation, Buckeye Peak, Bull Lake glaciation, Camp Hale, All tags... Chaffee Group, Chicago Ridge, Colorado, Colorado River, Cooper Hill, Dotsero Formation, Eagle County, Eagle River, East Fork Arkansas River, Geomorphology, Gray porphyry group, Hornblende Latite Porphyry, Lake County, Laramide, Leadville, Leadville Limestone, Leadville Quadrangle, Lincoln Porphyry, Manitou Dolomite, Minturn Formation, Missouri Hill, Mosquito Range, Mount Zion, No Name Gulch, Pinedale Glaciation, Rio Grande rift, Sawatch Quartzite, Sawatch Range, Sawatch anticlinorium, South Park, St. Kevin Granite, Structural Geology, Tennessee Creek, Tennessee Park, Tennessee Pass, Turquoise Lake, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Arkansas River, Upper Arkansas Valley, White Porphyry Group, cosmogenic nuclide, neotectonics, pre-Bull Lake glaciation, Fewer tags

Data release for Geologic Map of the Homestake Reservoir 7.5' quadrangle, Lake, Pitkin, and Eagle Counties, Colorado

The Homestake Reservoir 7.5' quadrangle lies at the northwestern end of the Upper Arkansas Valley, and headwaters of the Arkansas River, and the Roaring Fork, Fryingpan, and Eagle Rivers of the Colorado River system. The quadrangle lies within tectonic provinces of the 1.4 Ga Picuris Orogeny, the late Paleozoic Ancestral Rockies, Late Cretaceous-Paleocene Laramide orogeny, Oligocene to Miocene, and Pliocene?, volcanism, and Miocene to the present Rio Grande rift extensional tectonics. In the eastern half of the quadrangle, high-angle, east-dipping, Neogene normal faults displace Proterozoic rocks, and locally Mio-Pliocene? volcanic rocks. Many quartz veins and hydrothermally altered zones are exposed along the eastern...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: 10Be, 26Al, 10th Mountain Division Hut, Bald Eagle Mountain, Bear Lake, Brady Lake, All tags... Bull Lake glaciation, Busk Creek, Camp Hale, Carlton Tunnel, Colorado, Colorado River, Eagle County, Eagle River, Economic Geology, Galena Lake, Galena Mountain, Geomorphology, Glaciology, Hagerman Pass, Hagerman Tunnel, Homestake Creek, Homestake Peak, Homestake Reservoir, Homestake shear zone, Hydrology, Isolation Lake, Lake County, Lake Esther, Laramide, Leadville, Leadville Mining District, Leadville Quadrangle, Lincoln Porphyry, Longs Gulch, Mill Creek, Mineral Resources, Miocene volcanics, Mount Massive Wilderness, Mount of the Holy Cross Wilderness, Oligocene volcanics, Paradise Lakes, Pinedale Glaciation, Pitkin County, Pliocene volcanics, Porcupine Gulch, Rio Grande rift, San Isabel National Forest, Sawatch Range, Sawatch anticlinorium, Slide Lake, Soil Sciences, Sopris Creek, South Park, St. Kevin Granite, St. Kevin Mining District, Structural Geology, Tennessee Creek, Tennessee Park, Tennessee Pass, Timberline Lake, Turquoise Lake, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uncle Bud’s Cabin, United States, Upper Arkansas River, Upper Arkansas Valley, Water Resources, White River National Forest, cosmogenic nuclide, landslides, metalamprophyre, neotectonics, pre-Bull Lake glaciation, pseudotachylite, sakungen, Fewer tags

Data release for Geologic Map of the Poncha Pass Area, Chaffee, Fremont, and Saguache Counties, Colorado

This release presents the GIS data (in GDB, shapefile, and e00 [coverage] formats) and metadata for a 1:24,000-scale geologic map of the Poncha Pass area in central Colorado. A cartographic version of the geologic map, including map unit descriptions, interpretative text, and accessory figures and tables, is being separately published as a U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map (SIM). The map area is irregular in shape, covering all of one 7.5' quadrangle (Poncha Pass) and parts of five others (Mount Ouray, Maysville, Salida West, Salida East, and Wellsville). The map boundaries were drawn to cover all of the "Poncha mountain block", coincident with the approximately 15-kilometer-long northwestern...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 40Ar/39Ar age, Arkansas River, Bear Creek, Bonanza Tuff, Bull Lake glaciation, All tags... Chaffee County, Cleveland Mountain, Clover Creek, Colorado, Conejos Formation, Droz Creek, Dry Union Formation, Fremont County, Geomorphology, Laramide orogeny, Little Cochetopa Creek, Mears Junction, Methodist Mountain, Mineral Resources, Mount Ouray, Murphys Hole, O’Haver Lake, Pinedale Glaciation, Poncha Creek, Poncha Mountain, Poncha Pass, Poncha Springs, Rio Grande rift, Round Hill, Saguache County, Salida, San Luis Creek, San Luis Valley, Sand Gulch, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sawatch Range, Silver Creek, Simmons Peak, South Arkansas River, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, U-Pb age, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Arkansas Valley, Volcanology, basement rocks, basin-fill deposits, dike, fault slip, intrusive rocks, metamorphic rocks, mountain block, normal fault, oblique-slip fault, pre-Bull Lake glaciation, range-front fault, reverse fault, sedimentary rocks, sill, strike slip, surficial deposits, uplift, volcanic rocks, Fewer tags